I just released my first new piece of software using Distribute, and
I'm still confused about whether I have the packaging correct. I
think not, because a user has reported receiving a SandboxViolation
error when trying to install the package with easy_install (bug report
at: http://bitbucket.org/dhellmann/ical2org/issue/1/unable-to-install-ical2org-with)
. The relevant portion of the error message seems to be:
Searching for distribute
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/distribute/
Reading http://packages.python.org/distribute
Best match: distribute 0.6.10
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.10.tar.gz#md5
=99fb4b3e4ef0861bba11aa1905e89fed
Processing distribute-0.6.10.tar.gz
Running distribute-0.6.10/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/
easy_install-aO9HwB/distribute-0.6.10/egg-dist-tmp-woULY8
Before install bootstrap.
Scanning installed packages
Setuptools installation detected at /System/Library/Frameworks/
Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python
Non-egg installation
Removing elements out of the way...
Renaming /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/
Extras/lib/python/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.5.egg-info into /System/Library/
Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/
setuptools-0.6c7-py2.5.egg-info.OLD.1263800301.89
error: SandboxViolation: mkdir('/System/Library/Frameworks/
Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/setuptools-0.6c7-
py2.5.egg-info',) {}
That looks like the script is trying to install Distribute itself,
based I suppose on having it in the install_requires list in my
setup.py. I added distribute to install_requires after on an apparent
misreading of the instructions on http://pypi.python.org/pypi/
distribute.
So, my questions:
1. While researching the problem this morning, I came across the
instructions at http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html#using-setuptools-without-bundling-it
, which seem like a much more sensible way to bootstrap the
installation of Distribute than install_requires. Should I have used
that instead of install_requires?
2. If I don't require Distribute for installation, will my package
work with the older setuptools (assuming I'm not using any Distribute-
specific features, which I don't think I am, but I'm not sure I know
what those are). In a nutshell, do I need to force my user to install
Distribute at all before using my package? And if so, what is the
preferred way of doing that?
Thanks,
Doug
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